San Angelo Stock Show: Feb. 20, 2013

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Casey Walker steps up and helps his big sister, Bailey, with the care of her Angora Goat after arriving at the goat and sheep barn on Wednesday morning.

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Cooper Lloyd holds his Angora Goat steady while San Angelo Christian Academy elementary students feel its wool during their trip to the livestock barn Wednesday morning. Lloyd, a seventh grader at San Angelo Christian Academy, is showing his nine Angora goats in Thursday’s San Angelo Live Stock show.$RETURN$$RETURN$

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Will and Emmitt Crisp install feed trays in pens before bringing their goats for an overnight stay in the goat and sheep barn. The Crisps came to the San Angelo Stock Show to show their Breeders goats.

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Goat nail clippings flip away as Dale Little clips the hoof of one of his goats as part of the grooming for Thursday’s goat show.

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Savannah Santiago puts metal fencing between the goats pens as part of the preparation for housing her goats overnight in the goat and sheep barn. Santiago and her parents, Dale and Phillis Little of San Angelo, came to show Boer goats at this year’s stock show.

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Savannah Santiago’s Boer Goat, Cutter, nibbles on her jacket while she prepares his pen for an overnight stay in the goat and sheep barn.

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Dale Little hangs a sign above the pens that house his goats on Wednesday in the goat and sheep barn. Little, his wife, Phillis, and their daughter Savannah Santiago are showing their Boer goats in Thursday’s stock show.

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Kailee Jones, from Merkel, puts on her show face while bringing in goats Wednesday morning. Jones, a member of the Merkel FFA, came to the San Angelo Stock Show with several of her friends to show their goats in Thursday’s livestock show.

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Taylor Sanders, from Eden, spends 14 hours grooming her Angora Goat before each showing. Sanders has been showing goats for two years.

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Shana May helps her dad, John Billy Koonsman, unload their Boer Goats Wednesday morning. May and Koonsman breed Boer Goats at the A Bar Boer Goats in Snyder.

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Siblings Ethen and Jaycee Johnson get a little punchy on Wednesday morning while hanging out in the goat and sheep barn. The Johnsons plan on showing five goats in Thursday’s San Angelo Livestock Show.

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Lane Barber washes one of a couple dozen Boer Goats after arriving at the goat and sheep barn on Wednesday morning. Barber is one of a handful of contractors who show livestock for breeders throughout the United States.

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Tyler Jones of Merkel helps out with the grooming and boarding of goats to be shown in Thursday’s Stock Show.